Live Well ft. Lance Alexander

With vast increases in the number of COVID-19 cases, many organisations stepped up efforts to help the community. 

The Community Foundation of Singapore, through the Sayang Sayang Fund, is seeking to raise another 3 million Singapore dollars, to meet the evolving and urgent needs for services from charities. 

We welcome Catherine Loh, CEO of the Community Foundation of Singapore to discuss the gaps in social security that the CFS is addressing. 

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“Inferno” is an exceptional , moving and poetic memoir about motherhood and post-partum psychosis that makes you feel you are right there with the author as she finds herself in a psychiatric ward with a personality that’s changing in ways she doesn’t understand.

Michelle Martin speaks with Catherine Cho, author of Inferno: A Memoir to find out more about this striking story of motherhood and psychosis. 

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With the historic crash in oil futures on Monday evening that has sustained itself through the week, the virus ravaging energy markets, volatility is a word that best describes this week. 

The MAGA Tech Giants have shed more than 1 trillion US Dollars in market value since February, showcasing that even the biggest companies are suffering from the pandemic.

SGX stocks has come up as the top performance on the SGX.

How are healthcare stocks faring this week?

We discuss all this and more with Arun Pai, Chief Strategy Officer at AsiaCollect today.

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Get an exclusive preview of a book expected here in July. Humankind challenges the assumption that human nature is essentially destructive and says we could see more positive outcomes if we organised our societies according to a radically different and more positive assumption of human nature. Are we are by nature essentially cooperative and good?
Michelle Martin meets the man who challenged billionaires at Davos to discuss his book “Humankind” which invites every reader to rethink their basic assumptions of human beings.

Rutger Bregman is a journalist at The Correspondent, and one of Europe's most prominent young thinkers.

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Is an oil collapse deepening? Could we see a shakeout in energy sector? Will we see negative oil prices again? And given conflicting reports on Kim Jong Un's health are we seeing rather measured reaction to a possibly messy succession up ahead? If reports prove true what can we expect by way of market reaction? Michelle Martin speaks with Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA to find out. 

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